***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

[JimInks]

Didn't sleep much, so I'm reading and having a bowl of year 2019 C&D Derringer in a straight smooth brown 1920s (Comoy’s) Lions Head 399 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[TampaPete]

GLP Triple Play in a Rossi Vittoria

 

[judcole]

Milan Milestone in a Country Gent.

 

[Roach1]

OJK in a Jirsa 107.

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of year 2015 Mac Baren Virginia #1 in a straight black 1925 Dunhill patent shell Canadian 33 with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Roach1]

Huber English Perique in a Vauen Bent Egg.

 

[alwayslit]

KBV your welcome in an Adam Davidson

 

[carp rides again]

C&D Daylight or L'yom in the Stanwell 24 Poty

 

[telescopes]

GBD Virgin Made in England 9666 with GLP Horizons.

 

[bobpnm]

Good morning! It’s coffee and burley in a cob time. Chatham Manor isn’t old school Carter Hall. It is good in its own right. Enjoy your pipes today!

 

[TheHellYeah]

In the few years I consider to be myself a pipe smoker I haven’t tried that many tobaccos, but until this day and between all of those I’ve tried so far, this one is, without a doubt, the one I do enjoy the most. It doesn’t scream to me and the ones around me “hey look at me I’m here!!”. On the other hand it has everything to be enjoyable every time of the day and for every day. Peterson My Mixture 965, this time in a Volkan by Alberto Paronelli.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Jirsa 210.

 

[towhee89]

Linkmans Dr Grabow 9703B pot with CH/5B ....rainy here in nc

 

[B.Lew]

Old Gowrie in a “Scottie” billiard.

 

[Red1K]

Opening up a fresh tin from Kopp, Year Of the Dragon, starfruit topping aromatics filled in my Dracula Pete. Smells really good

 

[bobpnm]

HAve a little clean up work after weekend storms. Taking a break with some SWRA in the same Santambrogio I smoked last night. Iced tea on the side.

 

[PipeWI]

Job one upon retirement is to build me one. I don’t think my house would take too kindly to an indoor range with the kid of pistols we shoot in the lower 48, lol.

And on the other, as a music minor, you’ll get far more from listening if you take a music appreciation course. Highly recommended. You’ll be able to explain in detail WHY you like what you like, and know where ideas came from originally. Love rock or heavy metal? You’ll learn to know the connection between it and classical music. You might find you like opera, if not the un-musical snoots who just want to be seen watching it. And @gord would sure be a fun teacher!

Here’s the Winter of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on electric guitar:

Or the opposite... a rock anthem on classical instruments!

 

[thomasw]

Capstan blue in a 1961 shell briar shape 252 billiard.

 

[gord]

Job one upon retirement is to build me one. I don’t think my house would take too kindly to an indoor range with the kid of pistols we shoot in the lower 48, lol.

And on the other, as a music minor, you’ll get far more from listening if you take a music appreciation course. Highly recommended. You’ll be able to explain in detail WHY you like what you like, and know where ideas came from originally. Love rock or heavy metal? You’ll learn to know the connection between it and classical music. You might find you like opera, if not the un-musical snoots who just want to be seen watching it. And @gord would sure be a fun teacher!

Here’s the Winter of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons on electric guitar:

Some of these crossover guys are truly excellent. From my era, I usually cite Jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, who placed in the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Violin Competition, played in the Lameroux Orchestra in France, and became the generally recognized most technically accomplished Jazz Violinist of the bunch. Guitarist Daryl Steurmer, lead guitar of Genisis in those days, jumped ship to play in the Jean Luc Ponty Band, and was similarly endowed, on both electric and acoustic instruments.

This guy playing "Winter" is superb. I'll look a bit more into him; if he is equally adept on acoustic, he's probably their heir; this flexiblilty between electric and acoustic environments gives them more expressive range and a better selection of repertoire. What impresses me with the clip you provided is his concentration. That's the key. You DON"T play with emotion at the highest levels. You CONTROL the emotion in others up there. There isn't time to emote when playing the Novacek Perpetual Motion, or Paganini's Caprices. Period. Here's an example, and it was my signature encore - I've played this piece in public maybe forty or fifty times. No, you can't use music either - ever notice how many violinists play with their eyes shut in the hard parts?? Ya can either play this stuff or you can't - no middle road. Ya need a good accompanist, too. The piano part is a bitch, too.

 

[cynyr]

Prince Albert in a meer

Currently reading: Nothing New on the Land by Andrew Wareham